Estrogen receptor β gene mutations in Indian infertile men

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 513-520

  Khattri, A ^a   Pandey, R K ^a   Gupta, N J ^b   Chakravarty, B ^b   Deenadayal, M ^c   Singh, L ^a   Thangaraj, K ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b Institute of Reproductive Medicine   (India)

^c Infertility Institute and Research Centre   (India)

Author keywords

ER beta gene; Male infertility; Novel mutation; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INDIAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOGENESIS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; HUMANS; INDIA; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 67651162120     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gap044     Document Type: Article

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